苏轼·《满庭芳·蜗角虚名》英译

蜗角虚名，

蝇头微利，

算来着甚干忙。

事皆前定，

谁弱又谁强。

且趁闲身未老，

须放我、些子疏狂。

百年里，

浑教是醉，

三万六千场。　

思量，

能几许？

忧愁风雨，

一半相妨。

又何须抵死，

说短论长。

幸对清风皓月，

苔茵展、云幕高张。

江南好，

千钟美酒，

一曲《满庭芳》。

Courtyard Full of Fragrance

Su Shi

For fame as vain as a snail’s horn

And profit as slight as a fly’s head,

Should I be busy and forlorn?

Fate rules for long, Who is weak?

Who is strong?

Not yet grown old and having leisure,

Let me be free to enjoy pleasure!

Could I be drunk in a hundred years,

Thirty-six hundred times without shedding tears?

Think how long life can last,

Though sad and harmful storms I’ve passed.

Why should I waste my breath

Until my death,

To say the short and long

Or right and wrong?

I am happy to enjoy clear breeze and the moon bright,

Green grass outspread

And a canopy of cloud white.

The Southern shore is fine

With a thousand cups of wine

And the courtyard fragrant with song.